This month it’s been great to see competitions getting back under way, as we come to the end of a season that had begun to look like it would be a write-off. The highlight for me, and many others I’m sure, was the British Open Sporting at Garlands at the beginning of September. It was a great competition with a terrific atmosphere, everyone delighted to be out competing again. It brought some real drama too, with a closely-fought super-final and a worthy winner in our cover star Dave Ferriman narrowly beating some of the discipline’s top names to lift the historic trophy.
A week later British Shooting held their own spectacular at East Yorkshire for the Olympic disciplines - the British Shooting Grand Festival. This took the place of their planned Shotgun Series and Grand Final, which had to be abandoned due to the covid pandemic. Here again it was a great competition with the atmosphere of a real international event. We saw some superb shooting and exciting battles in the finals, while the covid regulations were followed to the letter throughout.